@Miller

Good, we are making progress and to use the pincer maneuver…lol, why did Arthur sell our soul to the CSME (and plans to continue) of which we are currently reaping the whirl wind from the hegemonists of the Caribbean?

@ David | September 29, 2012 at 9:21 AM |

Roy C has a song with the tag line:
“A man can’t make love to your woman unless she lets him”. No one forced Barbados to sell its assets either in the past or even now as is planned with the BWA, Air & Sea ports (either under this or the next administration whether D or B). The BNOC will not attract an overseas buyer even from T&T.

Bajans will continue to sell their assets and prostitute the national psyche for the sake of forex to maintain their conspicuous consumption. Even in the face of dwindling foreign income Bajans are still living high off the hog and beginning to behave like a paro by selling every thing to get a material “high”.

Arthur did not sell BL&P shares to Emera . If Bajans sell their assets to T&T at least they can keep noise and beg like the PHD with the milk fiasco. Can we do the same with Canada? What can we do to or tell Canadians who just removed the special privileges in the DTA? Impose visas on Canadian tourists? Nationalise the remaining offshore business and local banks?
Or more practical, repatriate Sargeant, Hants and Co to be consultants and political advisors to the next DLP administration?(LOL!!)

@Miller

who sold the national bank shares and icb. Capitalism is capitalism regional or international

Look Sarge
You ain’t got a hotdog or nuttin so that you cud go and eat….. cause you sounding just like Kellman…….and doan ask me for none of my souse neither…LOL

@ To The Point | September 29, 2012 at 10:07 AM |
“who sold the national bank shares and icb. Capitalism is capitalism regional or international”

What’s your point? Why can’t you get the gist of my argument like David BU? If you are that sharp you should remember the amount of family silver the Erskine Sandiford administration sold just to keep the forex flowing to pacify Bajans to satisfy their materialistic appetite in the early 1990’s
All subsequent administrations have done is to continue feeding the habit of conspicuous consumption instead of pride and industry.
Just take a look at the stupid promises being made by this current administration to Bajans about ensuring that tertiary education at the university level will always be free. What utter rubbish!!
The present government can’t even pay its current bills far less the arrears to UWI yet still making unrealistic stupid promises to the people and to that financial suck hole called Cave Hill.

Why continue to train a surplus of engineers, doctors, lawyers and accountants when there are no jobs for them? To do what; drive taxi and wait on tables or become croupiers?
The country needs to take to take stock of itself and heed RPB’s very early advice during the said Sandiford administration era: “Separate our wants from our needs”.

Interesting if you watch Arthur’s speech to the BCCI this week he seemed open to a businesscase being put for casino gambling.

Sgt. Peters | September 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM |
I dont see Bajans going in the Port , getting on a Ship and playing games in casinos
Why all the hoopla ??

Its crass political yardfowlism by onion and his stooges to knock a fabulous idea whose time has come. The only Bajans who can enter the port are Customs and Immigration. Judging by the many times they catch Customs people in drug dealing they may soon stop them too lol

anyone got a answer for me?

oh hell can they stay out all night and re board the next morning at 5 am??????????????????????????????

@Harry

One would imagine the time the tourist return to ship would be Ship/Port policy.

Its elementary Harold, passengers must be on ship an hour and a half before it departs Bridgetown Port if the ship stays until 2am cruise passengers dont have to leave Rehab or St. Lawrence Gap even Oistins before midnight. It sounds like a real win win scenario which should increase cruise passenger spend on the island.

you know what i don’t care i leaving this disgusting tiny island real soon.forever
but i wish you the best.lol

david why you moderating my truth?

Taximan (2:36)

You said that the only locals that can enter the port are immigration officers and customs officers. The same applies to the Airport but one senior public official, who was not traveling, entered the Airport and bought his duty free liquor and then get back in his MP car without being challenged. As practiced in Barbados, only local big-ups would be able to go on board ships to gamble.

Onions

I never said that the person was a politician. I said that he drives an MP car.

According to the Cadres poll , there is a 6 % swing and if elections were called the BLP would win.

I dont need no poll to tell me that. I was saying the same thing eversince now. I believe that people are reading me on BU and copying ,

As I have said already .

The results of the next election for a government to run the affairs of Barbados are as follows:

BLP = 29 SEATS
DLP = 0 SEAT
INDEPENDENT = 1 seat

@ Justsayin

Only Royal Caribbean?

@ David | October 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Sean is being fair and fearless. He should even go far as to ask for the wider on-land application of the legislation. Let casino gambling take place from 6.00 pm to 6.00 am everyday of the week with restrictions to locals in so far that they must gamble in foreign money with overseas accounts and credit cards.
BTW, do you know the latest with the Pierhead marina project?

@ David | October 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM |

Sean represents the kind of business person/ stakeholder that should be sitting on the BTA Board.
Do you know if he is on it? Won’t be surprised if he is not since he is too bright honest and knowledgeable of the industry for politicians to have around them, especially arrogant know-it-alls like the current MoT.

BTW were we not promised a January2012 start to Phase 1 of the construction of the Pierhead marina? The present Minister of Finance mad this public pledge early last year. But we have grown accustomed to the lies from this source. Like the Barrack settlement, like the CLICO solution, like the UWI arrears, ad nauseam.

It would most interesting to hear the views of Senators Rev. Crichlow and especially Rev. Durant (aka “David Thompson can’t die on my watch”) when the Casino Gambling Bill is discussed in the Senate .

We will see if there is any hypocritical hiatus between the Church and these DLP supporting men of the cloth sitting in a chamber of the devil.

@ old onion bags | October 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM |

We all know your position on the casino gambling and we respect you for that but isn’t this government a tad hypocritical when it can sanction casino gambling in the Port initially (with plans to extend it out across major hotels and other high-class spots) but still prohibits the use of marijuana in any form. Why unfair the small man in this way while allowing the class with money to engage in devil inspired boardroom games? There is absolutely no way that Barbados can attract future upscale development like Merricks, Four Seasons, or the one recently announced for the West Coast unless the developers are able to provide nighttime sport for their upper-class guests after a game of golf and there are no fine theatres or whorehouses to frequent.

Why not decriminalize the use of marijuana and allow the poor man to go to licensed joints like rum shops and have his smoke or drink of marijuana tea? The government can get some revenue from the licence fees. It already gets a cut of the trade by the taxes imposed on the importation of the paper to roll the herb like Bambi and Bamboo. Everybody knows that these papers are not imported or used to roll tobacco but used to make ‘spliffs’ or ‘joints’.

It would also encourage the growth of the marijuana plant locally thereby saving forex and reduce risking the lives of young men as they make dangerous journeys to fill a demand in Barbados.

What you say Onions. Or are you scared of the miller’s radicalism? BTW I don’t smoke (any more, ask Amused) LOL!!